Sunday Mass is a grave obligation says Scottish bishop

A Scottish bishop has reminded Catholics that they have a grave obligation to take part in Sunday Mass and he urged them to make this their priority every week and to bring others along with them. In a pastoral letter Archbishop Leo Cushley of St. Andrews & Edinburgh also encouraged parents to bring their children to Mass every Sunday “There’s no better thing you can do for your children than to bring them to meet the living Lord Jesus at Mass every week,” he wrote.

EU won't have enough young people to care for the old

As anti-life politics and culture take a deep hold across Europe, and the loss of Christian hope makes people more self-focused, birth rates in country after country are falling, endangering economic prosperity. The EU average is now 1.55 children born for every woman of childbearing age, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 children. Without the massive immigration that has taken place in the bloc the crisis would be far deeper.In Spain the figure has fallen to a mere 1.27, so that the population has been shrinking for the past six years.

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Catholic retreats transforming lives of prisoners

Beaumont Diocese in the south east corner of Texas has 300 volunteers involved in running retreats for both male and female inmates in the local jails and a federal prison. The retreats help prisoners to put God at the centre of their lives, give them a sense of their own dignity, a new vision of life and a sense of purpose. The style of retreat run by the Kolbe Prison Ministry involves talks, the stations of the cross, Eucharistic adoration and the sacrament of confession over an intensive weekend.